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Gamification mechanic Monday: Appointment dynamics In multi player online games having to come together at a set time to go and attack a rival tribe is an example of the appointment game dynamic. Usually you rely on everyone to show to have the best potential…
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Gamification Mechanic Monday: Dashboard In every game you will find a dashboard, which tracks your activities and progress. In business it is rare to see how we are doing and what the options are. Our progression on a career path is not usually tracked by…
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Gamification Mechanic Monday: To avatar or not to avatar Avatars are often a game mechanic to allow personalisation in a game, you can choose it’s gender in some cases and adapt it’s appearance, from skin and hair colour to dress code typically. When it comes…
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Gamification Mechanic Monday: Aura effect A game technique where the action of one player, has a rub off positive effect on another player by virtue of being around this player or in it’s energy field. This can generate additional points, boosters in terms of skills…
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Gamification Mechanic Monday: Crowd-creation A number of games are built on what the player creates, to name a few Minecraft, Lego, Sim city, Mario creator, etc. In the case of Mario, the came out with a creator kit after their already successful games, where the…
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In games some enemies or objects can be killed or moved, a few however are un-killable and also unmovable. As I was playing the new Mario Run on iPad this weekend, I got grabbed by quite a few moveable enemies, but what usually killed me…
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Hide and seek is probably one of the early games most of us learn when we start going to school. The person trying to find us starts counting and in that time the rest of the players hide themselves as well as they can, only…
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In some games your timezones night and day will also be reflected in the game. It means that from a certain point in time onwards the light settings turn to dusk or darkness and you have less visibility. In addition it also means that other…
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Mobile and tablet games have made us all used to regular updates and improvements, especially those that weren’t already computer and video gamers. Updates tend to be carried out for two reasons, firstly to fix known bugs and secondly to enhance gameplay. Most gaming companies…
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Random rewards are allocated on a randomised basis and provide an element of surprise. Fixed rewards appear at regular intervals usually at the end of a specific pre-designed activity or set of activities. In a recent gamification workshop I was asked, what works best for…
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With a lot more research coming out that with age our interest in competition decreases and our interest in more philanthropic style. In terms of gamification with ageing work populations in a lot of companies, this is also a significant statistic to keep in mind….
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As most of you that have seen me live at a conference have noticed I use dance a lot to start of a talk or to get the energy moving in the room. The reason I started doing this was actually a man snoring in…
